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14 Cards in this Set
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Trephination
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Brain surgery in Peru -– square cut out of skull – early brain surgery
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Edwin Smith
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case description of neurosurgeries 4000 years ago
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Galen
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systematic study of nervous system – discovered recurrent laryngeal nerves- beginning of real experimental neuroscience
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Vitalism
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espouced by Decarte
Mind/Soul seperate from the Brain |
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materialism/mechanist theory
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espouced by Darwin
Mind/Soul part of Brain |
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Cell Pioneers. (name 3)
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Schwann – cell theory – nn system made up of cells
Ranvier Golgi Weigert Ramon & Cajal |
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Franz Gall
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Phenology – localization of function - palpate scull and determine personality via bumps on scull
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Wernicke
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aphasia in which there is impairment in the comprehension of spoken and written words, associated with effortless, articulated, but paraphrastic, speech and writing; malformed words, substitute words, and neologisms are characteristic.
Result of damage to parietal/temporal lobe -localization of function |
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Broca
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damage involved with speech aphasia
localization of function |
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Karl Lashley
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memory storage localization
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Wilder Penfield
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Brain Stimulation causes inability to speak – evidence of circuits – idea of humunculus
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What is the Function of the CNS
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Internal Communication and Homeostasis
Monitoring of and Response to External Environment |
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Levels of Study of the CNS
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Molecular/Biochemical
Cellular Cell Assemblies and Circuits Organ System Behavioral |
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Determinants of CNS Structure
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-Evolution and Natural Selection
-Gene Action and Development |
